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'Kony' creator Jason Russell's wife: Keep focus on Africa

As Jason Russell, the Invisible Children filmmaker and creator of the "Kony 2012" video, remained hospitalized, his wife urged his supporters to keep their focus on fighting injustice in Africa.

"On Jason’s behalf, keep your attention turned to the end of Africa’s longest-running conflict, and setting a precedent for all future injustice." Danica Russell said in a statement. "With love and overflow of gratitude for your prayers, we thank you.”

She said doctors believe a "brief reactive psychosis" caused him to act strangely last week, ranting and roaming around San Diego in the nude.

The family said the treatment could take months.

"Jason will get better," they said. "He has a long way to go, but we are confident that he will make a full recovery. He is, and will remain, under hospital care for a number of weeks; and after that, the recovery process could take months before he is fully able to step back into his role with Invisible Children. During that time, we will focus not on a speedy recovery, but a thorough one."

They said doctors are treating Russell for "brief reactive psychosis, an acute state brought on by the extreme exhaustion, stress and dehydration," the family said. "Though new to us, the doctors say this is a common experience given the great mental, emotional and physical shock his body has gone through in these last two weeks."

The organization said it has been flooded with notes of concern since then.

"We could never thank you all enough for the massive outpouring of support that you’ve shown over the last few days," the organization added in a statement. "The letters, cards, emails and videos of support for Jason and all of us at Invisible Children have meant so much."

Russell, 33, was taken into custody last week by San Diego police after neighbors reported him running naked in the streets of a Pacific Beach neighborhood, pounding his fists on the sidewalk and shouting incoherently. Police took him to a mental health facility for observation.

San Diego Police Department officers responded to "several callers [who] reported that the male removed his underwear and was nude, perhaps masturbating," according to the police statement. By the time police arrived, the man was wearing underwear.

"The callers reported the underwear-clad male was in the street, interfering with traffic, screaming, yelling incoherently and pounding his fists on the sidewalk," according to a statement released by police spokeswoman Lt. Andra Brown. "He continued to act in a bizarre and irrational manner."

"Because of how personal the film is, many of the attacks against it were also very personal and Jason took them very hard," the statement said.

Among other things, critics said the video misstated the facts about the current level of violence in Uganda, Kony's current whereabouts and the strength of his militia forces.

Russell is a native of El Cajon, where his parents run the Christian Youth Theater. A graduate of USC, he co-founded Invisible Children, which now has headquarters in an office building in downtown San Diego.